This year's Cannes Film Festival

[jesse_custer]

The lineup is rather boner-inducing. Check out this slideshow:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cannes_film_festival_2009/pictures/

Tarantino has been getting a lot of attention with Inglourious Basterds, but there's a lot of other awesome directors involved.

A few of the highlights:

Johnny To has a new movie named Vengeance. If you're unfamiliar with To, I would suggest getting into his filmography. One of the best action directors alive. Fulltime Killer is a good starting point.

Chan-Wook Park is doing vampires with Thirst. Park reinvented the revenge subgenre (Oldboy being the greatest achievement in his Vengeance Trilogy), made the funny and overlooked political/war thriller J.S.A. (stands for Joint Security Area, you nerds), and crafted a weird sci-fi romantic comedy, I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK.

Michael Haneke has a new film about the children who would turn into Nazis: The White Ribbon. Haneke utilizes a voyeuristic style, similar to Hitchcock. Watch The Piano Teacher and try to get it out of your head. I dare you.

Joon-Ho Bong has got a new one called Mother. You probably know him by his monster film, The Host. But check out Memories of Murder. I'm convinced David Fincher masturbated to this before making Zodiac.

Francis Ford Coppola comes out with Tetro. Maybe it won't blow.

Alright, I've sucked off enough people. Now it's your turn.

[Royal]

Shinya Tsukamoto adds a third movie to his Tetsuo series with The Tetsuo Project.

[ultramandingo]

Chan-Wook Park[/B] is doing vampires with Thirst. . - wooooooo

...........plus Ramis Drag Me to Hell and Gilliams Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - which will probly be a mess

[Libaax]

Johnny To and Chan-Wook Park are two great directors. I just hope their movies are liked at Cannes alot so they can be on cinema here.

Unlike US,other big countries we dont have many cinema theatres and 99 % of the movies is hollywood brain dead blockbusters....

[ultramandingo]

99 % of the movies is hollywood brain dead blockbusters....

...........same deal in the states - no netflix in europe ?

[Libaax]

...........same deal in the states - no netflix in europe ?

I know netflix name but dont know what it really is. Is that where you pay to watch,download movies ?


Hey its not the same in US, you got to see Let the right one in which was a small swedish movie cause you got different type of cinemas. The only other kind of cinema there is here show months old dvd movies you can rent.

Indipendent movies,festival critical hailed movies dont come here. Even the swedish ones dont get on the cinema.

[ultramandingo]

..........you cant see " Let The Right One In " in the country that made it ?!? - that is crap -
im the bay area so we get cool stuff - but go over the hills to stockton and you might as well be in sweden - but with more meth labs

[Tobias March]

I hear the knives are out for Inglorious Basterds.

[ultramandingo]

........its payback for flipping off his crittics - " scandal ! "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHmtvWHZ2Q

[jesse_custer]

Great interview with Chan-Wook Park: http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/readResonnances/56490.html

I hear the knives are out for Inglorious Basterds.

Source?

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[Tobias March]

Great interview with Chan-Wook Park: http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/readResonnances/56490.html



Source?

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The Guardian film critic. Can't track down the exact article though.

[berk]

I skipped over the parts where it seemed he was about to give away some details about Thirst, but yeah, great interview, brief as it was, Thanks for posting that. Like everyone else, I'm crossing my fingers Thirst and all these other movies will make their way here to my area.

[Libaax]

..........you cant see " Let The Right One In " in the country that made it ?!? - that is crap -
im the bay area so we get cool stuff - but go over the hills to stockton and you might as well be in sweden - but with more meth labs

They didnt plan to put on the cinema over here but when they saw it was getting good reviews,hype in US,other countries they changed it fast to show it on the cinema. Like they planned it all the time.....

[Titan76]

I know netflix name but dont know what it really is. Is that where you pay to watch,download movies ?
Its a internet site that allows you to rent nearly any DVD you can think of expect porn. You pay a monthly fee($20 US), make out a list of DVDs you want to rent, you get up to 3 or 4 of them at a time, keep them for just about as long as you want, but won't get any new DVDs until you return it, if the DVD you want is out then they send you the next one on your list. Its also ALL through mail, there are no stores. If they have the DVD you want, I think you get it the next day after ordering it. Netflix is pretty much taking over the DVD rental business here in the states.

m the bay area so we get cool stuff - but go over the hills to stockton and you might as well be in sweden - but with more meth labs
Sadly, this is true.:frown: Manteca, my home town, use to be the meth capital of Northern California. Hell, some people use to say it was the capital of all of California.

[Royal]

Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-aWZt5CVvY)

I love de Van's stuff. Especially In My Skin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337961/) which sorta put her on the map with the rest of the world.

[Royal]

Alejandro Amenabar's Agora (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbKvfPKQVlU)

Holy shit! I think Amenabar clinched the Palm!!

[Hurnslice]

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/first-uk-reviews-of-quentin-tarantinos-inglorious-basterds-shown-at-cannes-film-festival/

Reviews for Quentin's IB's.

No visible knives.

[ultramandingo]

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7189/bakjui021.jpg (http://img41.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bakjui021.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2NCsz1mFc

[ultramandingo]

The Guardian film critic. Can't track down the exact article though.

" .......... Tarantino's Basterds is an armour-plated turkey
Quentin Tarantino's wartime spaghetti western about a bunch of Nazi-hunting Americans is just Gott-awful "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/20/cannes-film-festival-tarantino-inglourious-basterds

[jesse_custer]

Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon got the Palme d'Or.

I really want to see it. The Piano Teacher and Cache were tits.

Oh, and Thirst won the Jury Award.